The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-29
Local and state Notes.


Local and State Notes.
The Lake Erie & Western people expect
20 have their trains running into Peoria Nov. l.
The Cambridge City car-works Temporal
lily idle 1t is expected that they will start in
q few days on work for the l., B. & w. road.
The Hitch field works delivering box
cars to the Terre Haute & Peoria road at the
rate Of five a day until q contract for 200
shall be filed
General Freight Agent Geger. Of the j.. NJ e.
l., in the sity yesterday endeavoring to
range rate matters with several grain dealers to
ship grain to Southern points.
The Indianapolis car-works are turning out
coal cars at the rate OF twenty five day On
Monday they turned out thirty -one cars, the best
days work ever done at the establishment.
g. L. Hurley. formerly general freight agent
of the Chicago 81 Rock Island road and recently
appointed to the same position on the Des Moines
Fort Dodge road, died in Chicago Wednesday
night.
Edward Fitch. formerly yard master of the
j., M. d / road has been appointed yard-mas-
ter of the Missouri Pacific, at Ellsworth, Mo.
He has twenty miles of side-track under his
supervision
The portion of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Central railroad shops. at Adrian, Michigan, in
which the inter- work is done, is TO be re-
moved to Elkhart, Indiana Some 200 men are
employed in this department
The Cincinnati, Wabash e. Michigan WILL
Aug !, take the room on South Illinois street
occupied by the Bee-line and will represent the
Bee-liue in the sale of tickets, instead of the
reverse, as stated day or two ago.
The L., N. A. & G. company is rebuilding It's
entire locomotive equipment that is the old
portion OF it, as fast it can De put through
the shops. Within the next thirty days three
thoroughly rebuilt engines will be sent out.
Judge Burke. ex-vice president of the Bee
line, denies the report that he has been endeav-
oring to effect compromise in the Hooking
Valley litigation. He says he would not give a
farthing to have the disposed of in that
way
The new crop OF wheat and oats is coming
forward slowly as compared with former years.
Travelling freight agents assign as a rsas on that
those who are obliged to sell have disposed of
their grain and those who are not will hold ON
for better prices.
III. b. Hammond, receiver of the l., d. g. S.
road. has again been detained by illness from
coming West. His troubles of paralytic
nature and thought to be the result of excessive
smoking. However, at last accounts, he had
about recovered.
e. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pttsburg, and his
been on a pleasure trip this week. reached New
York yesterday afternoon and this evening will
start to their respective headq
General Manager Noonan, of the B. & o. Kan
kAkee Dispatch, returned from New York, yes
terday. He reports that the excitement
the Baltimore g. Ohio deal is gradually subsid-
ing, and the business OF the company in all de-
partments is moving along in its accustomed
smooth manner.
G. w Fairbanks, president, and H. N. Conk-
lin, general manager Of the Terre Haute &
Peoria road, on Wednesday made an inspection
of the road, and Mr.. Fairbanks expresses the
opinion that the physical condition of the prop
erty has been improved so per cent. within the
last ninety days.
tits stated that the Vanderbilt lines are again
determ med TO press the movement to make ex-
port rates the same over all routes whether
shipped via Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York
or Boston, and it is the opinion of of the
zv,rw rnftN hat
carry their point
Austin Corbin, president of the l.. B. e. W.,
and dozen other railroads, the Philadelphia 81
Reading being of the number, receives, it is
Stated, annual salary of $50, 900. AS he is a
large stock and bondholder in the several in
terests, a portion of the money is practically
taken from one pocket and put into the other.
Railroad earnings thus far this year. show a
gross increase of from II to 10 per cent, and an
increase in net earnings of twice that amount,
which indicates that the operating expenses of
the roads are down to minimum basis. The
improvement In net earnings Is bringing the en-
barrassed roads back TO a state of solvency
and materially improving railroad interests
generally.
John r. Elder, president OF the New Orleans
& Gulf road, has returned from the South.
While absent he purchased for the company the
local boats running between New Orleans and
South Pass. and they will be operated in the in
terests of this road hereafter. He also pur-
chased ground at Bohemia, of the present
terrnini of the road which promises to be a large
shipping point, where ample dock room will be
furnished.
Superintendent Woodland, of the L.. N A. 6
c., spent yesterday in the city. His health,
which had been poor for some weeks, IS fully
stored. and he is full of business. He states
that the traffic of the road is limited simply by
the cars they can command and the power they
have to haul them. The reports from all quar-
tiers to the effect that the L.. N. A. & G. is
now doing the heaviest business in the history
of the road.
A number of clerks of the female sex have
been employed for years in the general Offices of
the Toledo, St Louis d Kansas City road at
Toledo j. n. Quigley. president of the road,
who is looked upon in Western railroad circles
AS con siderable of crank, it is stated by a
Toledo paper, has ordered that every one of
them be discharged. He says he does it a
matter of policy. he being of the opinion that
only mon should be employed IN railroad Offices
Some of the best service done in railroad Offices
in Indianapolis is by female clerks who are
always at their posts.
Careful inquiry shows that the local freight
committee disposed to do all in their power
60 help indianapolis shippers. All complaints OF
and II shown to be well founded steps are taken
at once TO correct the evil. There is evidently
determination the part of this committee to
nee that this point shall not In any manner De
Disseminated against, and the carriage makers
are now about the only grumblers. Freight
men. however. say they have no reason to com
their freight is unusually bulky, vet each cart is
billed out at 165 pounds and takes up much
room rs would 800 pounds of groceries as they
Outsiders who visit the city and inquire after
rates are often surprised the figures at which
freight of many descriptions is shipped out of
here
General and miscellaneous.
Fargo. Oak. is negotiating with the Wash
burns of Minneapolis, for an extension of the
Minneapolis d Pacific to that point
A disappointed bidder was the source from
which JAY Gould learned that his purchasing
agents were proftiEg in making contracts for
erossties.
A scheme is now on foot to extend the Chica-